In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You know how you feel somebody looking at you, and you turn, and somebody actually is? It's the same at an art gallery. You're looking at one portrait, turn around, and there is a work of art directly behind you. Because it's all energy. Every single thing has energy.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.
A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.
Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look at them, the more satisfying they become for the viewer. The more time you give to the painting, the more you get back.
With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.